Amid mounting calls for Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Josh Hawley of Missouri to resign or be expelled from the chamber, a group of Democrats filed an ethics complaint on Thursday requesting an investigation into the two senators’ roles in inciting a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Tina […]
President Joe Biden immediately began to reverse the Trump administration’s policies on climate change with one of 17 executive orders signed Wednesday after his inauguration. That’s in addition to the move to rejoin the Paris agreement to limit climate-changing greenhouse gases. After four years of federal disinterest in the issue, the order calls on all […]
WASHINGTON – Moving swiftly on her first day as acting CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, journalist Kelu Chao oversaw the removal of the top executive at the Voice of America, reversing a widely criticized appointment by her Trump-appointed predecessor, Michael Pack. Robert Reilly, whom Pack appointed as director of Voice of America […]
DHSS today announced one death of an Alaska resident and 203 new people identified with COVID-19 in Alaska. 202 were residents in: Anchorage (40), Kusilvak Census Area (30), Fairbanks (22), Wasilla (18), Juneau (15), Eagle River (11), Palmer (9), Bethel (8), Kenai (8), North Pole (7), Unalaska (6), Anchor Point (3), Bethel Census Area (3), Kodiak (3), Douglas (2), Ketchikan (2), Seward (2), Sutton-Alpine (2), and one each in Aleutians East Borough, Dillingham Census Area, […]